Origin of the Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter instability
Origin of the Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter instability
We give strong numerical evidence for the existence of an instability afflicting six-dimensional Reissner-Nordström de Sitter (RNdS) black holes. This instability is akin of the Konoplya-Zhidenko instability present in RNdS black holes in seven spacetime dimensions and above. Moreover, we perform a detailed analysis of the near-horizon limit of extremal RNdS black holes, and find that, typically, unstable gravitational modes effectively behave as a massive scalar field whose mass violates the AdS2 Breitenlöhner-Freedman bound (if and only if d≥6), thus providing a physical argument for the existence of the instability. Finally, we show that the frequency spectrum of perturbations of RNdS has a remarkable intricate structure with several bifurcations/mergers that appears unique to RNdS black holes.
hep-th, gr-qc
Campos Dias, Oscar
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Santos, Jorge E.
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17 December 2020
Campos Dias, Oscar
f01a8d9b-9597-4c32-9226-53a6e5500a54
Santos, Jorge E.
6e5a1703-a14c-4ef6-bfe4-7e4c5177c274
Campos Dias, Oscar and Santos, Jorge E.
(2020)
Origin of the Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter instability.
Physical Review D, 102 (12), [124039].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.124039).
Abstract
We give strong numerical evidence for the existence of an instability afflicting six-dimensional Reissner-Nordström de Sitter (RNdS) black holes. This instability is akin of the Konoplya-Zhidenko instability present in RNdS black holes in seven spacetime dimensions and above. Moreover, we perform a detailed analysis of the near-horizon limit of extremal RNdS black holes, and find that, typically, unstable gravitational modes effectively behave as a massive scalar field whose mass violates the AdS2 Breitenlöhner-Freedman bound (if and only if d≥6), thus providing a physical argument for the existence of the instability. Finally, we show that the frequency spectrum of perturbations of RNdS has a remarkable intricate structure with several bifurcations/mergers that appears unique to RNdS black holes.
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Accepted/In Press date: 24 November 2020
Published date: 17 December 2020
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24 pages, 17 figures
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hep-th, gr-qc
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/446565
ISSN: 1550-7998
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